An image of a brand new chip has surfaced on social media, which appears as if it could possibly be a design for a brand new dual-GPU AMD Radeon graphics card. The picture is not like any current AMD chip, with two identically-sized chiplets sitting facet by facet, however no I/O chip, which you’d count on on a CPU, and no small Infinity Cache chips, which you’d count on on a GPU.
The AMD RDNA 4 launch is now set for 2025, however this new lineup of GPUs was anticipated to be monolithic, which means the GPU is all based mostly on one chip, slightly than a number of chiplets. Nonetheless, AMD definitely has the know-how to make chip packages containing multiple GPU, because it’s demonstrated with its CDNA 2 knowledge heart chip tech. What’s extra, AMD just lately introduced that it’s now unifying RDNA and CDNA, so its gaming and knowledge heart chips will use the identical core structure. If AMD may construct a brand new Radeon GPU with this tech, it may presumably make one of the best graphics card ever.
Is there a brand new dual-GPU Radeon within the works? That’s unattainable to say proper now, however let’s check out the supply of this picture (proven under) that’s doing the rounds. So far as I can inform, it was first posted by an X (previously Twitter) person referred to as Ayxerious, with only one phrase; “fascinating.” It’s not a desktop CPU, and it additionally appears very completely different from the AMD Strix Halo diagrams we’ve seen up to now, which have a big GPU chiplet and smaller CPU chiplets.
It’s since been shared on the Chiphell boards, the place it’s being mentioned as a possible image of the forthcoming AMD Navi48 GPU. This chip is anticipated to have 56 compute models – that’s not a design I’d count on to be break up over two chiplets, except AMD has particularly designed RDNA 4 to be based mostly on including additional equivalent chiplets to be able to scale upward.
That’s not out of the query, AMD does this with its CPUs in any case, however nobody was anticipating to see it with RDNA 4. In reality, the rumor was that AMD was engaged on a multiple-chiplet design for what may have been the Radeon RX 8900 XTX, however then canceled it.
Both method, Ayxerious doesn’t look like glad about this hypothesis, with a follow-up publish responding to tech leaker HXL sharing the Chiphell dialogue, saying, “I’m the one who posted it right here first. And a few fool reposted it on chiphell and now it’s a premiere leak. Bro…” Let’s face it, this image may additionally simply be a pretend, however it does seem to have captured folks’s imaginations.
I’m nonetheless not anticipating RDNA 4 Radeon RX 8000 graphics playing cards to have a number of GPU chiplets in a single bundle, however AMD may positively make such a product sooner or later, and that would maybe be what this image reveals. Making a scalable GPU chiplet structure is smart from an economics standpoint, as you possibly can simply use the identical chip over once more in numerous playing cards, however simply put extra of them within the bundle as the facility (and worth) will increase.
AMD has additionally come a good distance because the flaky days of CrossFire, and if it have been to provide a multi-chiplet GPU, I’d count on Home windows to see it as one chip, with the chiplets related by a really high-speed interconnect. That is all pure hypothesis at this level, although, a few chip image that could be the results of somebody having a play at our expense in Photoshop.
AMD isn’t the one firm anticipated to unveil new GPUs in 2025 both. If you wish to see what could possibly be in retailer from the competitors, try our Nvidia RTX 5000 information, the place we take you thru every thing we all know in regards to the new GPUs up to now.